Fallout S2 teaser brings us to New Vegas
Prime Video has dropped an extended teaser for the much-anticipated second season of Fallout, widely considered to be among the best TV adaptations of a gaming franchise. In our 2024…
Top pediatricians buck RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine meddling on COVID shot guidance
In a clear rebuke to US health secretary and zealous anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the American Academy of Pediatrics on Tuesday released its own evidence-based vaccination schedule for…
Why Your Security Culture is Critical to Mitigating Cyber Risk
After two decades of developing increasingly mature security architectures, organizations are running up against a hard truth: tools and technologies alone are not enough to mitigate cyber risk. As tech…
U.K. Government Drops Apple Encryption Backdoor Order After U.S. Civil Liberties Pushback
The U.K. government has apparently abandoned its plans to force Apple to weaken encryption protections and include a backdoor that would have enabled access to the protected data of U.S.…
Public Exploit for Chained SAP Flaws Exposes Unpatched Systems to Remote Code Execution
A new exploit combining two critical, now-patched security flaws in SAP NetWeaver has emerged in the wild, putting organizations at risk of system compromise and data theft. The exploit in…
New GodRAT Trojan Targets Trading Firms Using Steganography and Gh0st RAT Code
Financial institutions like trading and brokerage firms are the target of a new campaign that delivers a previously unreported remote access trojan called GodRAT. The malicious activity involves the “distribution…
Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Exploited to Deploy DripDropper Malware on Cloud Linux Systems
Threat actors are exploiting a nearly two-year-old security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to gain persistent access to cloud Linux systems and deploy malware called DripDropper. But in an unusual twist,…
MAHA Draft Report: Pesticides, Processed Foods Unmentioned, But Conspiracy Theories Abound
We’ve already demonstrated over the course of plenty of posts that RFK Jr. is wildly incapable of running Health and Human Services. The fact that he was even nominated for…
Train Maker Sues Hackers For Exposing Dodgy Efforts To Make Train Repairs More Difficult
Back in 2023 we wrote about how regional Polish rail company and a train manufacturer NEWAG had taken to using DRM to lock down trains that are repaired by independent…
Techdirt Podcast Episode 427: Why Data Portability Is Crucial For The AI Future
Support us on Patreon » As we’ve been thinking and writing about the intersection of democracy and technology, especially burgeoning AI technology, we always come back to the core issues…